Mel Gough began his career at NACA Langley working in wind tunnels and ended it as head of the Atlantic Missile Range in Cape Canaveral.
Test pilots at Langley have often started as engineers. Engineer Mel Gough, who began his career in wind tunnels in 1926, took a leave of absence so he could learn to fly and come a pilot at Langley in 1929. He rose to chief pilot, then director flight research until he transferred in 1958 to Cape Canaveral to become NASA’s head of the Atlantic Missile Range.
Credit: NASA/Langley Research Center